US National Guard News

A massive, howling tornado pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, chewing up homes and businesses, and severely damaging a hospital and two elementary schools.

A fire outside of Reedley broke out around 1 o'clock on Monday. Explosive materials nearby weren't the only things CALFIRE was concerned with.

The death of two Guam soldiers in Afghanistan on Thursday makes the Marianas' observance of Memorial Week more somber than it already is, according to Gov.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Sophia Mantzouris of the 386th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron said she knew she wanted to enlist on active duty from the time she was a little girl, but a friend steered her toward the Air National Guard.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, left, comforts her son, Nalin, and daughter, Rena, as her husband, Michael, deploys to Afghanistan.

Specialist Benjamin Herrmann, Oregon Army National Guard, emerges from the water while completing in the Region VI Best Warrior Competition at Camp Rilea, Warrenton Ore.

An Oregon Air Guard F-15 on the tarmac at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls. Oregon Air National Guard F-15s would be able to fly over expanded controlled airspaces and, in one case, lower in an existing zone, under a proposal being launched today by the National Guard Bureau and the Air Force.

The Arizona National Guard's top officer has unveiled more than a dozen reforms as the organization wades through sexual abuse, drug trafficking and abuse of power allegations.

Heritage Creek subdivision in Bolingbrook welcomed back one of its residents Thursday night from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

About 1,800 civilian employees of the Ohio Guard may be required to take 11 unpaid days off under the Department of Defense budget-cutting plan.

Charleston police officers Cpl. Jeff Setser and Sgt. Nick Null were both called to active duty in Iraq while working for the city.

The Shadow, an unmanned aerial vehicle commonly known as a drone, roars to life on the video screen like a powerful snowmobile before it's launched into the skies on a catapult.

More than 80 percent of the services members who committed suicide in recent years had never been in combat.

Monsignor Chad Gion leads three parishes in western North Dakota. Now, he`s added a fourth.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. SEATTLE - Serial killer Robert Yates, whose death sentence has been upheld by the state Supreme Court, is seeking an appeal through the federal court system.

It was a long-awaited reunion for Erin Bence, 25, of Lake Saint Louis. Her husband of just 18 months, Specialist Randy Bence, 30, returned home Sunday after nine months with the 1138th Engineering Company of the Missouri National Guard.

After 15 years in the Army and two stints overseas with time in Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait, David Colliton of Amsterdam, New York is now aiming to become the National Guard's best warrior.

Watch raw video and see photos of an Air National Guard refueling plane make an emergency landing, as it aired live on TODAY'S TMJ4.

ValpoCommunity.com just released information that a LaPorte, IN., National Guardsman was arrested yesterday by local police following a threat against a non-commissioned officer.